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1058772

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date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the publication of the Government's response to the consultation on the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	219477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill on 23 July 2018. Alongside this, an Overview Document was published which, while providing an overview of the policy and how the register will work, sought views on how the clauses will be implemented in practice.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Bill is expected to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint <em>ad hoc</em> Committee. The Committee will report to Parliament, following which the Government intends to respond to the Committee’s report. The response will reflect the responses to the Overview Document.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:56:32 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1058777

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 216933, Trade Agreements: Israel, on which borders are the (a) pre-existing agreements and (b) Continuity Agreement agreed in principle between the UK and Israel based.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	219275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The EU-Israel Trade Agreements apply to the State of Israel. The same position is being incorporated into the UK-Israel Agreement. The UK does not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), including the settlements, as part of the State of Israel. The OPTs are not covered by the current EU-Israel Trade Agreements, nor by the UK-Israel Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The EU-Palestinian Authority Interim Agreement applies to the territory of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The same position is being incorporated into the UK-Palestinian Authority Interim Agreement, which is due to be signed in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 15/02/2019 10:30:18 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

1058793

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	EU External Trade: Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which Departments are responsible for each of the EU free trade agreements that the UK is seeking to roll-over.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Mr Chris Leslie
uin	219302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The task of ensuring continuity of EU free trade agreements is a cross-government programme with the Department of International Trade’s Trade Policy Group (TPG) working closely with other government departments, alongside the Department for International Development (DFID), the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 15/02/2019 10:32:09 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

1058862

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Business: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to encouraging businesses to reduce unnecessary energy consumption.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	219579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Clean Growth Strategy sets out our ambition to enable business consumers to reduce their energy usage by improving energy efficiency by at least 20% by 2030, potentially reducing carbon emissions by 22MtCO<sub>2</sub>e over the fifth Carbon Budget.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget, in November 2018, we announced up to £315M for an Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support businesses with high energy use to invest in energy efficiency and decarbonisation measures. We also announced we would publish a call for evidence in 2019 on introducing a new Business Energy Efficiency Scheme, focused on smaller businesses.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced a more streamlined energy and carbon reporting framework to help businesses to reduce their carbon emissions and associated energy costs, which will come into force on 1 April this year. Under the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), all large businesses are required to audit the energy used by their buildings, industrial processes and transport to identify cost-effective energy saving measures. We are undertaking a comprehensive assessment of the impact and effectiveness of ESOS and will consider future reforms when the current phase ends in December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Climate Change Agreements Scheme incentivises a wide range of industrial sectors to reduce energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in return for a significant discount on the Climate Change Levy. And we have recently launched a new £18 million Industrial Heat Recovery Support Programme that supports the recovery and re-use of waste heat from industrial processes, and committed £8.8 million to promote innovative approaches to energy management using smart meters.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking steps to build capacity and capability in the energy services market including through a £5.6 million competition to encourage innovation in aggregating and scaling up smaller energy saving projects across commercial and industrial buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working to ensure that those who lease premises to businesses continue to refurbish and improve the performance of their buildings. This included bringing new regulations into force in April last year which set a minimum energy efficiency standard for non-domestic rented buildings. On current plans, we will consult on proposals to go further in 2019. In parallel, we are clear that all new commercial and industrial buildings should be more energy efficient and are planning to review Part L of the Building Regulations in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2019 14:34:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1058983

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase awareness of the option to request more frequent universal credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	219554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>We will be running various pilots in jobcentres from Spring 2019 to actively explain and promote more frequent payments to claimants at the outset of their Universal Credit claim. The overall trial will last for four weeks, followed by a period of evaluation. This analysis will take place over a 3-month period to track the trial cohort to identify take up rates, effects on payment timeliness, effects on phone calls and reversion rates. These outcomes will be expected in the Summer. This evidence will then inform our approach to the delivery of more frequent payments going forward, in order to ensure that the claimants who need these arrangements receive them.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/02/2019 11:24:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1059063

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Tidal Power and Wave Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits of the UK's wave and tidal stream energy sectors.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	219536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Wave and tidal energy are still at a pre-commercial stage of development. A report published by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult in February 2018[1] estimated that if cost competitive, wave energy had the potential to add a net positive contribution to the UK economy but the sector lagged around ten years behind the tidal sector.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://ore.catapult.org.uk/?attachment_id=6260" target="_blank">https://ore.catapult.org.uk/?attachment_id=6260</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2019 14:36:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1059065

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Tidal Power and Wave Power: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of the potential export market for the UK's wave and tidal stream energy technologies.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	219537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Wave and tidal stream technologies are still at a pre-commercial stage of development. A report published by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult in 2018[1] estimated that, if the technologies can reduce their costs sufficiently to compete with other forms of generation, the by 2050 the global market for tidal stream energy could be up to 101GW installed capacity and for wave energy, 236GW.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://ore.catapult.org.uk/?attachment_id=6260" target="_blank">https://ore.catapult.org.uk/?attachment_id=6260</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2019 14:38:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones